[Nabisco007]

Originally Posted by GOTFIVEONIT

hillary won NJ

aww mann...

[GOTFIVEONIT]

Originally Posted by Nabisco007

aww mann...

ya here is the result

Political Dashboard - 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News and this is a pretty good website, you can find out the vote tally from other states as well too on here.

now for new jersey democratic primary, with 98% of the precints reporting

HILLARY 54%

vote total: 590,742

OBAMA 44%

vote total: 486,782

here is the breakdown

of all total voters:

democrats formed 24%
republicans formed 18%
and independents formed a whopping 58%

New Jersey voter breakdown by race:

White - 63%
Latino - 16%
Black - 13%
Asian - 7%
Other - 1% (probably mixed race, native americans and african immigrants)

[GOTFIVEONIT]

Originally Posted by MuslimZ

Obama is about to win a hell of a lot more states; they're just in the midwest, and different timezones.

that's why i wrote SO FAR TONITE

[GOTFIVEONIT]

California Totals

Democrats

Clinton 55%
Obama 33%

Republicans

McCain 44%
Romney 25%
Huckabee 12%
Paul 4%

» 13% of precincts reporting

Super Tuesday Winners

Democrats

Clinton:
OK, AR, TN, NY, MA, NJ, MO, AZ

Obama:
GA, IL, DE, AL, UT, ND, KS, CT, MN, ID

Republicans

McCain:
NY, NJ, IL, CT, DE, OK, AZ, MO

Romney:
MA, UT, ND, MT, MN

Huckabee:
WV, AR, AL, GA, TN

[GOTFIVEONIT]

Political Dashboard - 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News

MISSOURI PRIMARY VOTE TALLY

OBAMA - 49%

vote tally: 387,064

HILLARY - 48%

383.853

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

MCCAIN - 33%

vote tally: 188,673

HUCKABEE - 32%

vote talley: 181,646

ROMNEY - 29%

vote talley: 166.515

[GOTFIVEONIT]

cnn projects, hillary and mccain to win their party's primary in delegate rich california. mccain projected by cnn to win missouri.

[PhDGirl]

Check this out (I'm sure a bunch of you have seen this already):

yeswecansong.com

Whether or not you're an Obama supporter, it's pretty cool how the artists just decided to make it (Obama's campaign had nothing to do with it) and how it's spread all over the internet. It's like a case study of viral marketing.

[GOTFIVEONIT]

more people are voting in the democratic primary than the repug primary. even in states which hold open primaries.

and if you are a u.s. citizen living overseas, you can still vote in the democratic primary till feb. 12. even though only 11 delegates are at stake for americans abroad, every delegate counts in this unusual election.

so states up next:

Saturday, Feb. 9th, 2008

Kansas caucuses (Republican Only)
Louisiana primaries
Nebraska caucuses (Democrat Only)
Washington caucuses

Main Democratic Caucaus Sunday, Feb. 10th

Tuesday, Feb. 12th primaries:

Washington D.C.
MARYLAND
VIRGINIA

Feb.19th

Hawaii caucuses (Democrat Only)
Washington primaries
Wisconsin primaries

March 4th

Ohio primaries
Rhode Island primaries
Texas primaries
Vermont primaries

Saturday, March 8th

Wyoming Democratic Party caucuses

[GOTFIVEONIT]

TOTAL DELEGATES

Hillary Clinton

Pledged: 632
Superdelegates: 193

Total: 825

Barack Obama

Pledged: 626
Superdelegates: 106

Total: 732

2,025 needed for nomination

[GOTFIVEONIT]

Originally Posted by sak01

I'm noticing that this time round the tables have turned. Neither of the 2 Repub canditates are enjoying the kind of staunch support Bush had before them (neglecting Huckabee and Paul who will be eliminated).

In contrast, Clinton and Obama do. So whoever gets nominated we're going to see a reversal of 2004 so that repubs will now be voting for someone they don't particularly like and sometimes even despise, purely to keep the Dem, who they hate more, out of the White House. The core group of supporters for either of Clinton and Obama will pull them through in the Presidential race, and the Repubs will be left with that look of disillusionment in American democracy that the Kerry voters wore in 2004. It's not the fact you're candidate lost but the fact that a pratt has won and you didn't get to choose from any good candidates in the first place.

The Dems will have their confidence restored while the repubs will consider migrating. It all reminds me of Catch-22.

They're all the same anyway and in the revised words of Mr Ford; "You can have any colour you like......as long as it's black or dark black"

first of all you dont understand the american political system. if anything john kerry came in very close in 04'. in fact, the election was decided by only a lil over 100,000 votes out of millions casted nationwide.

the only reason, that john kerry lost the election, is because those daam hillbillys down in southern ohio, hunkered down in the appelechian mountains, refused to vote for a noth-easterner, and went with a fellow southerner, bush, instead.

in fact, in 2000, al gore barely campaigned in ohio, and got 28% of the vote down in southern ohio. while john kerry massively campaigned in southern ohio, and only managed to get 28% of the vote. what that shows is a regional bias there.

and why is that important? because of the winner take all system we have for each state. even if you win by just 500 votes, as in florida in 2000, you win all of thier states electoral college votes.

another reason why john kerry lost, is simply due to the fact that independent voters decide elections. that's somehing you have removed out of your equation out of who has more supporters who are more crazy about thier candidate. those people dont decide elections, its the independents who do, especially in close race elections, like the kinds we have been seeing since 2000.

plus kerry was a senator, a long time serving senator at that. here's a fact: no senator has won a presidential election since 1960. plus the last three democratic party presidents were all southerners, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton.

the road to the white house for a democrat, is through the south. He must pick off, meaning win, at least two or three southern states, away from the repugs. and vice versa for a repug, he must pick two or three states in the north away from the democrats. which is what bush did, when he consolidated the southern states.

the new strategy for the democrats is to capture the votes of the growing latin communities of the south-west, away from repugs, and win the white house that way. kerry tried to do that in 04' but failed, but that was four years. things change, more voters registered, more immigrants becoming citizens, etc.

i really just dont get how someone living in london, could possibly understand the american political system or how it works, given how vastly different it is from the british parliamentary sytem.

[Jamroll]

Look all us brits really want to know is, is homeboy gonna be in the White House?

[Sugarberry]

Originally Posted by Jamroll

Look all us brits really want to know is, is homeboy gonna be in the White House?

I know nothing about british politics...but has a person of color/woman ever gotten into a postion in Britian as high as the president ( the Queen dont count)

[MuslimZ]

Originally Posted by Jamroll

Look all us brits really want to know is, is homeboy gonna be in the White House?

there's a very good chance.

"YES WE CAN".

[PhDGirl]

Originally Posted by Sugarberry

I know nothing about british politics...but has a person of color/woman ever gotten into a postion in Britian as high as the president ( the Queen dont count)

Yes - remember Margaret Thatcher?

[Jamroll]

Originally Posted by Sugarberry

I know nothing about british politics...but has a person of color/woman ever gotten into a postion in Britian as high as the president ( the Queen dont count)

No, us black folks don't partake in them politics much. There's a few Muslim MPs (Members of Parliament), but the most they've got is a junior minister role.